Quark vs. InDesign

Throughout college we've used InDesign for our layout and such, so I was wondering how significant the differences were between it and Quark? I see a number of positions that require Quark use experience....are the InDesign skills transferable or is it like starting from scratch to learn Quark?

I was in your same position coming out of college. You'll be fine. As others have said, it's just a matter of adjusting to the shortcuts. Quark is often older and so many college have Indesign because they have money to spend on newer software, whereas papers don't.

I will say that a lot of the fun things that come easy in InDesign (colored headlines, shadow boxes, filling a head with art, etc) are very different and take many more steps, including having to use Photoshop a lot more.
If it were up to me (and it never is) I would have always used InDesign, but Quark can turn out some nice pages too.